WARNING: Colvin's Power Can Make You Flip Out

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It was one of those moments in boxing that makes every highlight reel and blooper show in the country.

 

 

 

Undefeated (6-0, 5 KOs) middleweight Kurtiss (pronounced Kur-teese, not Curtis) Colvin was having a highly entertaining scrap with Long Beach, California's Cleven Ishe at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa, in Cabazon, California, and live on ESPN Friday Night Fights, last July 22 when he knocked Ishe down with a looping right hand.

 

 

 

What made the moment a favorite on YouTube and a staple of every sport show's highlights that week was Ishe's reaction to the punch: he did a Popeye-style backward somersault from the force of the blow.

 

 

 

To his credit, Ishe got up, but a couple punches later, he was rescued by referee Lou Moret at 1:24.

 

 

 

"It was my first time on TV, so I had to make a statement," laughs 25-year-old Colvin of the unforgettable knockdown. "I train for the best possible outcome in all my fights and that's what that was. My trainer, Frank Tate, told me in all his years, he never saw a knockdown like that. I said 'you have now and there's more to come.'"

 

 

 

Before turning pro in 2009, Colvin was 45-5 as an amateur and on the USA National Team. He won the State Golden Gloves, and was ranked number one in Texas and number three in the country.

 

 

 

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